The Alsace-based family business Braun & Cie was one of the most pioneering and productive 19th-century photography companies with a wide range of products marketed throughout Europe and North America: flower still lifes, Alpine landscapes, Swiss cities, animal and architecture studies, and the reproduction of famous works of art.

Schirmer/Mosel. Ed. by Ulrich Pohlmann and Paul Mellenthin. In cooperation with Franziska Kunze. With texts by Jan von Brevern, Aziza Gril-Mariotte, Christian Kempf, Dorothea Peters, Marie Robert, Bernd Stiegler and the editors. 360 pages, 359 colour plates. Size: 24.5 x 28 cm, hardcover. German edition.